Thanks to all who have contributed on this Delaney/Fields thread. I've learned some interesting things I never knew about my own close family members. Plus have solved some mysteries. First, I have a picture of the Hall Family taken in the late 1890s. There were three young children standing with Sarah Rich Hall that I couldn't positively identify. I assumed two of them were the known children of the deceased Emma Hall Delaney. But since the third one was dressed in the same fabric, I guessed there was a third child I never knew about. I now know that there was and that she and her grandmother burned to death. This story is especially horrific when you can look into the faces of these two just months before their deaths. I guess the family was so traumatized they never talked about it. And especially since my own aunt (Sarah's great-granddaughter) was badly burned as a child just a decade later. Plus I set our own house on fire when I was about three years old and tried to put a log on the fire. Long dresses, open fireplaces, dry wooden mantles and fires around wash tubs were an extreme hazard in earlier periods. According to my mother, Virginia Mae Fields Wagner (obit below) was raised by her cousin Matie Hall and Matie's husband Dewey Bagget (who never had children of their own). My mother wasn't quite certain how Virginia Mae fit into the Hall family but she knew that she did. Now I know. Does anyone know what happened to Jack Delaney? Delores Thompson ----- Original Message ----- From: Ben Edwards<mailto:broben@nlamerica.com> To: GAEMANUE-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:GAEMANUE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 4:43 PM Subject: [GAEMANUE-L] Obits Obit for Virginia Mae Fields Wagner Swainsboro Forest-Blade 8 Oct 1953 Mrs. Virginia Mae Fields Wagner, 41, of Columbus, Ga., died Friday morning, September 25 in an Augusta hospital after an extended illness. She is survived by her husband Paul Wagner, Sr.; one son Paul Wagner, Jr.; one daughter Betty Wagner, all of Columbus; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fields of Soperton, two brothers, Clark Fields of St. George, S.C., and Clifton Fields of Savannah; three half-brothers; Lloyd Fields of Henderson, Nevada, Wallace Fields of Mt. Pleasant, Texas, Jack Fields, Soperton; one half-sister; Mrs. J.W. McKenzie of Jacksonville, Fla. Funeral services were conducted at 2:00 P.M. Sunday, September 27, at the chapel of Swainsboro Mortuary by the Rev. Vernard Robertson and Earnest Seckinger. Burial was in the Hall Family Cemetery near Modock. Pallbearers were C.K., Willie, John A. and J.D. Fields, R.J. Holder, and Lonnie Hutchinson. Swainsboro Mortuary was in charge of funeral services.